The City of Hundred Doors "Luxor".
Once the center of the ancient world, Luxor which is considered to be the most important destination for any visitor interested in ancient Egyptian civilization. This outdoor museum has the largest collection of historical monuments in all of Egypt, distributed throughout the City of Luxor on the East & West side of the Nile.
So "Egypt Tours Portal" provide a great chance for the visitors of Hurghada through a one-day trip to explore the highlights of Luxor such as Karnak & Hatshepsut temples, Colossi of Memnon, and Valley of the Kings.
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Discovering EGYPT 🇪🇬 : Colossi of Memnon
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These two gigantic statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III are called the Colossi of Memnon. They have stood (the pharaoh in that seated position) in the ancient area known as the ‘Theban Necropolis’ for the last 3,400 years. Although the statues are both quite damaged (with the features above the waist totally unrecognisable), their towering height (18m/60 feet) over the flat lowlands was quite a sight to behold. The sheer size of them was most impressive and fascinating!! I count myself blessed to have lived to see these 3,400 year-old statues with my own eyes 🙏🙏.

Bernard Picart
#Memnon Reviving at Sunrise
France/Netherlands (1733)
Tempel der Zanggodinnen.
Dutch Art: Mythology and the #Aethiopes , or #Ethiopians by Esther Schruder, #Art Historian and Curator:
The mythological tales depicted in art during the sixteenth and seventeenth century derived from the classics, the works written by #ancientGreeks and #Romans , who called all black #Africans Aethiopes, or Ethiopians. These classical authors, who were much read by artists in the #Netherlands , accorded several Ethiopians a role in their stories.
The beautiful #Andromeda , for example, nearly always portrayed as white, was actually Ethiopian in origin.
The #Greek poet #Homer (c. 800 – c. 750 BC) endowed the Ethiopians with a fabulous, almost #supernatural status: he wrote that they came from the #East , the land of the sun, were guiltless and fought under their king #Memnon on the side of the #Trojans in the #TrojanWar .
Almost certainly #Homer did not know the exact location of #Ethiopia .The #Roman writer #Pliny the Elder (AD 23 – 79) was also interested in the Ethiopians whom he described as a handsome race, the tallest people known, with skin burned by the sun and frizzy hair. He believed that Ethiopia lay in #Nubia .
Later generations were better able to locate the country.
During the lifetime of the #Greek writer #Heliodorus of Emesa (third century AD) there was lively contact between the Greeks and Romans and ancient Ethiopia, which was also known as #Aksum . #Heliodorus was partly inspired by these relations to write a romantic tale he called #Aethiopica , featuring a #black Ethiopian royal couple, a white Andromeda and a black Ethiopian princess. The book was rediscovered centuries later and translated into French in 1547. In 1610 this was followed by a Dutch translation entitled De Moorenlandtsche gheschiedenissen, which enjoyed great, but brief, popularity.
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